Artist: Keith Haring (American, 1958 - 1990). Title: "Life Is Fresh! Crack Is Wack!! (December, 1988) [invitation]". Medium: Offset lithograph. Date: Composed 1987. Printed 1988. Dimensions: Overall size: 6 x 4 1/8 in. (152 x 105 mm). Lot Note(s): Signed in black marker, lower right; signed and dated in the matrix. Edition unknown, presumed small. Light orange wove paper. Full margins. Fine impression. Condition: fine. Comment(s): Bipo was a singer and a Haring assistant at the Pop Shop in New York City. This invitation to the party at Tunnel uses the same image as Haring created for Bipo's album cover of the same name released in 1987. The image was neither an editioned print nor a poster. Tunnel was a legendary nightclub in New York City, located at 220 Twelfth Avenue, in the Chelsea district of Manhattan, in the Terminal Warehouse Company Central Stores Building, now part of the West Chelsea Historic District. Tunnel was opened in December 1986 at the cost of $5 million by Eli Dayan – the founder of Bonjour Jeans – in a space which was formerly a railroad freight terminal. Image copyright © The Keith Haring Foundation. [28368-1-300] |